🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello all,

I have been interested in Linux for a few years, wanting to
try it out to gain some experience with Unix. Usual thing
I suppose.

I haven't got around to it yet, but after reading APC's Linux
articles, my yearning was refreshed.

I need some help deciding whether to buy Redhat or that other
one which I can't quite remember at the moment.

My PC is somewhat pathetic. And I have done some dodgy upgrading
to it and would like to know how successful I'll be getting
Linux to run on this...

*	i486DX-33 ISA AMI BIOS motherboard purchased in '91.
	Desoldered the 66.667MHz OscMod and replaced it with
	an 80.000MHz. (Thanks RIE).
	Chucked a "fan/heatsink/heatsink compound" combo on it
	to keep it cool. Works no less than before. I have not
	noticed this "locks up" any more than it used to.
	Thanks to AMISETUP changed the ISA timing from ATCLK/4
	(10MHz) to ATCLK/3 (13.3MHz). Also works just as reliably
	and faster in VGA benchmarks.
	I have since replaced this CPU with an i486DX2-66 nka
	DX2-80 :), with the same heatsink, etc. And suprisingly
	it works just as reliably as the 33 at 40MHz. I was told
	clock doubled CPU's and the like can't be overclocked,
	oh well.

*	Diamond Speedstar 24X.
	I wish I could get the ISA running at 16MHz, because the
	manual for this video card claims it will work at this
	speed.

*	Generic single port IDE cont.

*	Western Digital Caviar 340Mb IDE HDD.

*	TEAC 3.5" FDD.

*	Acer 6X IDE CDROM.
	I dislike this drive as it doesn't clamp the discs hard
	enough. Scratches their inner clamp area when trying to
	speed up and slow down and generally has problems reading
	because of this. Although putting a sticker on the clamp
	area for more "traction" completely fixes this.

*	8Mb 70nS RAM. OK you can stop laughing now. :)

*	Generic 2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 game port. 16450.

*	Creative AWE32 PnP full edition.

*	Old style USA made MS Mouse.

*	US Robotics Courier V.Everything with latest Aussie X2 SDL.

*	NEC keyboard.

*	Crappy KTX monitor.

I'll soon be upgrading to a serious games machine, but would like
to get stuck into Linux.

Norton's NDIAG occasionally reports a few bad RAM address', but Win95
works pretty nicely. Is Linux very tolerant of problems like this?

Many thanks,

I think being a tinkerer at heart, Linux might be for me.

Bye for now.